Insider Buying: Assura Plc (LON:AGR) Insider Purchases £149.34 in Stock

Assura Plc (LON:AGR) insider Jonathan Murphy acquired 393 shares of Assura stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 6th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 38 ($0.47) per share, with a total value of £149.34 ($183.76).

Assura Trading Up 1.6 %

Shares of AGR opened at GBX 36.66 ($0.45) on Friday. The firm has a market cap of £1.19 billion, a P/E ratio of -3,666.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 0.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 85.04, a current ratio of 0.89 and a quick ratio of 2.84. Assura Plc has a 1 year low of GBX 35.68 ($0.44) and a 1 year high of GBX 47.78 ($0.59). The company has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 38.72 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 40.45.

Assura Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Investors of record on Thursday, December 12th will be paid a dividend of GBX 0.84 ($0.01) per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 12th. This represents a yield of 2.12%. Assura’s payout ratio is -30,000.00%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Berenberg Bank reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 51 ($0.63) price target on shares of Assura in a research note on Tuesday, September 17th.

About Assura

Assura plc is a specialist healthcare property investor and developer. We enable better health outcomes through our portfolio of more than 600 healthcare buildings across the UK and Ireland, from which over six million patients are served.

We BUILD for health, having developed over 100 new healthcare buildings in our history, and at the heart of our strategy sits The Bigger Picture; Healthy Environment (E), Healthy Communities (S), Healthy Business (G).

Assura plc achieved B Corp certification in July 2024 – the first FTSE 250 business to do so.